NO. 2043. NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM PANAMA— BUSCE. 13 



color on apical fourth of costa; upper part of cilia black, lower part 

 yellow. Hindwings blackish fuscuous. Abdomen blackish fuscous 

 above, underside ochreous. Legs black with a broad, yellow band 

 at the end of the posterior tibiae and with narrow, yellow tarsal 

 annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 12 mm. 



Habitat. — La Chorrera, Panama, May. 



Type-specimen.— C&t. No. 15826, U.S.N.M. 



Reminds in a general way of Arogalea sonorella Busck, which was 

 collected at light at the same time as the present species. It is easily 

 distinguished by the complete yellow fascia on the fore wings. 



GELECHIA GENIATELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi with well developed triangular tuft, white with a 

 blackish bar on the middle and an ochreous pencil in the tuft; 

 terminal joint fully as long as second, white sparsely sprinkled with 

 brown. Face white, ii-idescent. Head mottled with gray. Thorax 

 white mottled with gray and ochreous. Forewings white overlaid 

 with dark gray and ochreous scales; on the middle of the cell are two 

 large tufts of dark erect scales, one above the other and together reach- 

 ing nearly across the wing; the bases of these tufts are yellow; on the 

 costa are four dark brown spots edged below with yellow; at tornus 

 is a fugitive ring of dark brown scales with a few yellow scales within; 

 apical part of the wing is heavily overlaid with dark brown which 

 obscures a row of dark terminal dots. Hindwings semitransparent 

 on basal haK; dark fuscous on apical half; the males have a strong 

 costal tuft, ochreous at base, blackish brown at tips; veins 6 and 7 

 are long stalked; veins 3 and 4 short stalked. Abdomen dark 

 silvery fuscous above, whitish on the underside. Legs whitish 

 ochreous, sprinkled with black and with black tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse. — 11-12 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto BeUo, Trinidad River, Alhajuela, Paraiso and 

 Corozal, Panama, March-May. 



Type-specimen.—C&t. No. 15827, U.S.N.M. 



A rather extreme form with its Tpsolop7ius-]ike tuft, its long- 

 stalked veins 6 and 7, its strongly tufted forewings and with the male 

 costal hair pencil, which is rather exceptional in the genus, but 

 withal properly included in Oelechia. 



AROGA, new genus. 



Type. — Gelechia paraplutella Busck. ^ 



Labial palpi long, recurved; second joint thickened with rough, 

 shghtly furrowed brush on the underside; terminal joint long, slen- 

 der, acute, shorter than the second. Forewings elongate, smooth; 

 costa and dorsum nearly straight and parallel until apical fourth; 



1 Proo. Ent. goo. Waeh., vol. 11, 1P09, p. 181. 



